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Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson (Ed.) - The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Flows, and Sources - 9780804741996 - V9780804741996
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The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Flows, and Sources

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Description for The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Flows, and Sources Paperback. The past few decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education, consulting, and the formalization of management practice, with a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book describes and analyzes this worldwide flow of management ideas and the key carriers of these ideas. Editor(s): Sahlin-Andersson, Kerstin; Engwall, Lars. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.

Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge.

The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge carriers—business schools, consultancies, and the media. Drawing on data from worldwide empirical studies, the chapters analyze how such ... Read more

The combination of theory and practice will make this book a valuable resource for courses dealing with management, organizational and institutional theory, and globalization.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804741996
SKU
V9780804741996
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson (Ed.)
Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson and Lars Engwall are Professors of Management in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Engwall's most recent book is Regulation and Organizations: International Perspective (co-editor with Glenn Morgan).

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